Arts & Entertainment Take Note, Jan Wahl You can watch the on-air personality -- an exhausting and worrisome job title if ever we've heard one -- here, or catch it after the jump. (Note: Sorry about the commercial before the
SF News Laughing Along with the Laughing Squid We got a chuckle when local thought leader and former Ferrari test-driver Scott Beale drew our attention to the perils of allowing unfettered commentary by linking to a hilarious, quasi-NSFW two-minute video. Which
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash.
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are no less than three fantastic music festivals all taking place over the weekend of September 14-16. What gives? And how do we choose? Since we live in the bay area, perhaps
SF News Local Fire And Brimstone (If By Brimstone We Mean Generalized Trouble) Did you see (video footage) all that smoke (pictures) yesterday? A fire at 17th and Noe Street between the Mission and the Castro at around 6:30 yesterday evening displaced at least 14
SF News Blue Angels Committee Vote As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. Daly, who's been working
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Who's He Calling 'Fat Ass'? Fun video: A San Francisco-based officer from the Federal Protective Service gets mad at skaters. Now, granted, this thing was probably highly edited and we certainly only get one side of the story
Arts & Entertainment Is It Music or Just "Human Behavior"? Oh Björk! You quixotic Icelandic vixen, you. You dancer on the tongue-tip of the art vanguard. You lucky multi-million-dollar musician. Unlike mere mortals who don't have the clout or funds to access such
Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday brings you
SF News SFist Blotter Your Black Muslim Bakery update: the business is being liquidated in an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding (they have almost $1 million in debt) after a number of unnamed potential buyers dropped out, and the
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last week was a great week for live music, and we managed to see three fantastic shows. Last Friday we started off seeing Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium. Having (somehow) never
Arts & Entertainment When Fans Attack We'll try not to overdo all the Bonds stuff today, but to get you started, here's a video taken from somebody out in the centerfield bleachers, right where the ball landed. It's a
Arts & Entertainment Barry Comes Undone How stressed out was Barry before he hit 755? Dude forgot to zip up his fly Hmmm...maybe he had just taken a steriod test?
Arts & Entertainment Take Me Out to the Ballgame Courtesy of the always on top of it, Say Hey Sports Blog, here's some video footage of somebody who had probably way too many beers, a few cops who had way too little
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 4 Dodgers 2- So the Giants took two out of three in Dodger Land (and hey, don't forget to play our "Rename Dodger Stadium Contest" as Barry Z actually pitched a good
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The shows coming to San Francisco this week give us an excuse to talk about some of our favorite music of 2007. Perhaps the best album we've heard this year comes from a
misc New SFist Giants Contest Hey Giants fans, hate the Dodgers? Like, really, really, really hate the Dodgers? Wanna have some snarky yet juvenile fun at their expense? Hell, what else can you do considering they're in first
SF News A Cop's Perspective On Use of Force At AT&T Park It must be oddly freeing to have an ongoing, very public work-related crisis, because Officer Andrew Cohen seems to have a lot to say these days. And why the heck not? It's an
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City How 'bout them Cardinals? Ryan Adams was in town this week, and he evidently brought two very different moods to the San Francisco and Berkeley shows. We were at the Herbst Theatre show
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy If I'm not mistaken, 1 dog (must be muzzled) on a vehicle at a time. I like suckafree's idea of the kiosk. Maybe not at every stop, but every so often or at
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Braves 7 Giants 5- Man, can you believe it's the 20th Anniversary of Guns n' Roses' "Appetite for Destruction?" Twenty years. We can still remember when that album (yes, album) came out and
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Slint Every tale about the band Slint begins with retrospect. A couple guys who’d known each other a long time got together in Loo--ville, KY, to make a band named after a goldfish.
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway! Win Tickets To The Cribs It is a cavalcade of giving these days at SFist! Today's present to our faithful readers: tickets for you and a friend to see new alternaband the Cribs. They're three brothers (two twins)